How to get rid of independent colonies

[Satori18]

I was playing a 1444 start as Portugal, my plan all the way through was to give up all my European provinces and move my capital to Brazil and play as a western nation from there. Apparently loads of people have done this before, yet when I tried it my game decided to make Almost ALL my fucking provinces part of some shitty colony (without asking me, without me choosing to do this as a 'decision') And now I'm left with 2 provinces (1 in Hispania and one on some shitty African Island) Is there anyway I can get my game back? or have I just lost all my fucking provinces to some bullshit AI? It's impossible to vassalize them and I can't even declare war on them. If I lose all my provinces do I play as my colonies? Is there anyway I can get rid of this bullshit colony?

 

[_judge_]

Its just how 1.4 works, if you would have thought this through instead of rant you would have discovered an obvious solution:
Release all colonial nations before you release the one you want to play as, and play as the last one you release, this way you can play as a colony and easily conquer the other ones.

1.4 emulates history as every colonial entity did not control the colonies directly, but fram afar, wich led to a 'indepedant' nation.
There is no indiaction in history that a european power would give up its home region and settle somewhere else (unless you take nazi-germany in the movie 'ironsky! in account )